Network Applications Consortium Brings Together Leading Users,
Vendors and Standards Bodies to Explore Emerging Relationship Between
Network Access Control and Identity Management (IdM)
The Network Applications Consortium (NAC) brought leading users, vendors and standards bodies together for two days last week to develop a fuller understanding of the emerging relationship between identity management and network access control. Hosted by Progress Energy in Raleigh, North Carolina, the NAC 2005 Spring Conference discussions centered on the need to control access based on both the identity of the user/device and the healthy functioning of the end-point device's security capabilities. This is becoming a key business enabler for end-user organizations that require a high degree of third-party participation in their business processes. Participants agreed that the conference was an important step towards making third-party access more efficient and secure.
Participating vendors included BigFix, Caymas, Cisco, ENDFORCE, IBM, InfoExpress, Microsoft, Sygate, Symantec, Vernier Networks and Zone Labs.
Participating alliance partners and standards organizations included Burton Group, DMTF, Jericho Forum, and the Trusted Computing Group.
For more information about the NAC or for access to the conference report, contact Doug Obeid: email CEO@netapps.org or phone +1 (808) 874-8408 or (415) 282-8670.
About the Network Applications Consortium
Founded in 1990, the NAC is a consortium of information technology (IT) user organizations representing combined revenues of over $800 billion. Members include large, complex, distributed end-user organizations, many of which are global in scope, representing many industries as well as government and higher education. NAC's collaborative process -- involving members, alliance partners and vendors -- is designed to radically improve its members' ability to deliver agile IT infrastructure in support of business objectives.
The Network Applications Consortium (NAC) brought leading users, vendors and standards bodies together for two days last week to develop a fuller understanding of the emerging relationship between identity management and network access control. Hosted by Progress Energy in Raleigh, North Carolina, the NAC 2005 Spring Conference discussions centered on the need to control access based on both the identity of the user/device and the healthy functioning of the end-point device's security capabilities. This is becoming a key business enabler for end-user organizations that require a high degree of third-party participation in their business processes. Participants agreed that the conference was an important step towards making third-party access more efficient and secure.
Participating vendors included BigFix, Caymas, Cisco, ENDFORCE, IBM, InfoExpress, Microsoft, Sygate, Symantec, Vernier Networks and Zone Labs.
Participating alliance partners and standards organizations included Burton Group, DMTF, Jericho Forum, and the Trusted Computing Group.
For more information about the NAC or for access to the conference report, contact Doug Obeid: email CEO@netapps.org or phone +1 (808) 874-8408 or (415) 282-8670.
About the Network Applications Consortium
Founded in 1990, the NAC is a consortium of information technology (IT) user organizations representing combined revenues of over $800 billion. Members include large, complex, distributed end-user organizations, many of which are global in scope, representing many industries as well as government and higher education. NAC's collaborative process -- involving members, alliance partners and vendors -- is designed to radically improve its members' ability to deliver agile IT infrastructure in support of business objectives.